I. Intensive Optical Monitoring of the BL Lac object PKS 2155-304: the July 1998 campaign. II. Optical Polarization of PKS 2155-304

Details I. Intensive Optical Monitoring of the BL Lac object PKS 2155-304: the July 1998 campaign. II. Optical Polarization of PKS 2155-304 I. Intensive Optical Monitoring of the BL Lac object PKS 2155-304: the July 1998 campaign. II. Optical Polarization of PKS 2155-304

1999-07-19

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9907249v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages, 6 ps figures. Two papers to be published in the Proceedings of the OJ-94 meeting "Blazar monitoring towards the third

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In this contribution two papers on the BL Lac object PKS 2155-304 are presented. They are based on our program of systematic intensive optical monitoring in search of fast variability events. In the first paper the results of a CCD photometric campaign conducted at ESO (La Silla, Chile) on 6-14 July 1998, for a total time on the source of ~30 hours. Some peculiarities in the light and colour cutves were evidenced. In the second paper we report on linear polarization, as observed in the UBVRI bands in June and August 1998 for a total of ~45 hours. Between the two epochs, the linear polarization in the V band increased from ~3.5% to ~5.5%, and the position angle decreased from 100 deg to 70 deg. Significant day-to-day variations of both quantities are also observed. An isolated "dip" of the polarization percentage occurred between 17 and 19 June in all bands: a decrease and subsequent rise of a factor of 2 is seen in the linear polarization, accompanied by a variation of the position angle by 90 deg.

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